Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 9: Army and police today busted a major hideout of the militants and recovered large quantity of arms, ammunition and explosives in Gandoh area of Doda district, thwarting the militant plot to carry out terror strikes while as troops have recovered a T-shirt with ‘Jamat-ud-Dawa Pakistan’ name from Sabjian sector in Poonch district, where three militants were killed on December 3.
Official sources said a joint team of Delta Force troops based at Sohanda, Gandoh police and 42 battalion of SSB conducted a joint search operation in Kindre forest area of Gandoh following information developed about dump of large quantity of arms, ammunition and explosives.
Recoveries made from the spot included one AK-56 rifle, one .303 rifle, two Chinese pistols, one Under Barrel Grenade Launcher (UBGL), two hand grenades, 11 AK-56 magazines, four Chinese pistol magazines, three UBGL grenades, 11 pistol rounds and huge quantity of 7.62mm assorted rounds along with other sustenance stores.
Sources said the cache of arms and ammunition had been stocked by the militants inside the hideout to use it at an opportune time. The cache had the potential to cause large scale casualties and damage to life and property.
“However, the alert teams of Army, Police and SSB have thwarted designs of the militants by timely effecting recoveries of arms, ammunition and explosives and destroying hideout of the militants, which reportedly belonged to erstwhile Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militancy, who were not active now,” they added.
The recoveries were major setback to the militants as their plot to revive militancy and carry out terror strikes has been foiled by the security personnel, sources said.
Meanwhile, Army have recovered a T-Shirt with `Jamat-ud-Dawa Pakistan’ written in Urdu on it from Sabjian sector of Poonch district along the Line of Control (LoC), where the troops had gunned down three Pakistani militants on the evening of December 3, thus, thwarting their infiltration attempt.
Sources said the T-Shirt in possession of the slain militants with ‘Jamat-ud-Dawa writing’ has clearly established the role of Pakistan in aiding and abetting militancy and infiltration attempts. Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militant outfit is an armed wing of Jamat-ud-Dawa, they said, adding the recovery of the T-shirt was an indication that the militants trying to infiltrate into the Indian territory were backed by Pakistan army and other top militants of the LeT outfit.
Apart from Jamat-ud-Dawa T-shirts, a number of other Pakistan made items have also been recovered from the LoC in Sabjian sector during the searches, sources said, adding this has established that the slain infiltrators had originated from Pakistan.
It may be mentioned here that Army had gunned down three heavily armed infiltrators in forward area of Mukhyari in Sabjian sector of Poonch district on December 3 when they were trying to enter into the Indian territory from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK).
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